With almost as much butter as flour, Dutch butter cake is rich and dense.

Traditionally made with laminated blundell pastry, these Hungarian chocolate rolls have crisp edges and soft, fluffy centers.

Torta di mele is a classic homemade Italian cake that you can serve as a merenda alongside a cup of coffee or even for a sweet breakfast

Pear frangipane tart is a French classic: tender poached pears atop rum-infused frangipane all nestled into a crisp pâte sucrée crust

Zimtsterne are traditional German Christmas cookies. They’re moist and chewy cinnamon stars glazed with a thin, crisp layer of royal icing.

Turrón is Spanish nougat that’s a popular Christmas candy loaded with toasted almonds and caramel-honey flavor.

Pain d’épices is a spice-laden honey cake from France. While the literal translation is spice bread, it’s roughly translated as gingerbread.

These are spiced shortcrust cookies with a smooth almond filling in the center.

Appeltaart is a tall Dutch apple pie made from a brown sugar shortcrust pastry filled to the brim with cinnamon apples.

This French chocolate tart with shortcrust pastry is incredibly decadent. While it may look humble, it is absolutely luxurious.

Diced apples are lightly sweetened, spiced with a hefty spoonful of cinnamon, and enveloped in a buttery-flaky parcel of puff pastry.

Apples are caramelized in butter and sugar on the stove, topped with pastry, and finished in the oven.

Tarta de Santiago is a cake with a simple base of almonds, sugar and eggs, usually flavored with cinnamon and lemon zest.